h t e f T o o k w l a n T TOWN & GOWN
FALL 2011
President’s Message
Another Banner Year for Lunch at the Forum
Welcome to an exciting time of the year during Chapman University’s 150th anniversary when 1,500 new students arrive and 6,100 students will be studying on campus. All are anxious to pursue their life dreams. Come walk around the campus and catch the spirit yourself! I hope you plan to attend our outstanding Lunch at the Forum series. Hearing professors and students speak to us brings a dynamic reality to what is going on in the classroom. I also hope you will introduce your friends to Town & Gown by bringing them to a luncheon. I promise that those who hear our first lecture by piano virtuoso Dr. Grace Fong will go away vowing never to miss another Forum luncheon. Another way for you to enjoy the Town & Gown association is to go on one of our motor coach trips. Here is an opportunity to meet and get acquainted with members, and often their spouses, in a totally informal and relaxed atmosphere. Throughout the year there are many other exciting on-campus events for you to attend - lectures, gallery shows, music and theater programs. Among them is an event that Town & Gown has promoted and supported for many years - the Opening Night performance of American Celebration on Friday, November 4. I look forward to your joining the more than 100 T&G members and friends who attend regularly. You will find details about these and other happenings that may be of interest to you in this issue of Talk of the Town. Every one of you is important to our success. In its 43 years, T&G has been applauded for providing both scholarships and gifts to the university. It would be impossible to continue this mission without your membership and generous support. It is an honor for me to be your president and to work with the dedicated “servers” who make up the Town & Gown Board.
Welcome to our 16th year of Lunch at the and victims of domestic abuse. Then, fasten Forum. Our stellar lineup of speakers this year your seatbelts as Dean Campbell will discuss will inspire you. how Congress operates and take us through At the first luncheon of our series, on the hidden rules of how laws really get made. October 6, Grace Fong, Ph.D. director of The first luncheon of the spring is keyboard studies will present Beyond the scheduled for February 2, 2012, when Middle Notes: How to Prepare for a Concert. She East experts, James Coyle, Ph.D. and Nubar will show us the kind of work that goes Hovsepian, Ph.D., will challenge our thinking into a performance leading up with their topic The Arab Spring: to a musician walking onto the Implications for U.S. Policy. stage and how the same piece On March 1, 2012, performed by two different artists Professors Eric Chimenti and can be so different. Her lecture, Claudine Jaenichen, wizards of given from a performer’s point of graphic art and design, along view, will discuss and demonstrate with their students, will explore the creative and intellectual process The Impact of Design: From the that leads a musician from the Olympics to Medicine. notes on the score to the actual At our fifth luncheon, on November 10th speaker, performance. May 3, 2012, Barbara Mulch, Dean of Chapman University On November 10, Tom School of Law, Tom Campbell Ph.D., director of Fellowship Campbell, J.D., Ph.D., dean of and Scholar Programs, will the Chapman University School of Law and a share with us The History of Making a former U.S. congressman and California state Difference: Traditions and Values of Chapman senator, will enlighten us on How Congress University. Town & Gown members will elect Really Works: The Budget and Debt Ceiling. next year’s offices at this luncheon. Look for He will begin with Chapman University’s more details about our spring lectures in the service to the community through its eight next issue of Talk of the Town. law clinics, including those serving elders When you receive your invitation in the Continued on page 2
Would You Like to Take a Cruise? . . . A harbor cruise, that is, offered by Town & Gown on a private vessel, chartered exclusively for members and their friends! On Wednesday, October 19, we will be traveling by motor coach to the Port of Los Angeles and Ports O’ Call Village for our first trip of the season. There we will start our cruise and listen to an interesting narrative about the area as we enjoy the view from the
open upper deck or the panoramic picture windows of the enclosed lounge below. Don’t forget to look for the sea lions and the Love Boat terminal as we pass the yacht marinas and watch the freighters and cargo ships go by. The Port of Los Angeles is considered to be “America’s Port,” the premier gateway for international commerce and the number one container port in the nation. Continued on page 2